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tying and soldering does actually affect the strength of the wheelbuild, while doing tricks, 180's and jumping stairs and stuff like that wheels get really stressed a lot, before i tied and soldered all the wheels in our trickbikes we had the wheels go bad really soon like within a week maybe two. The tied and soldered wheels last months and months before i have to true them again

Interesting. Tying & soldering does stop crossed spokes moving around and rubbing against each other but that's not really an issue on road/track bikes. I wonder if the hard impacts are de-tensioning the spokes to such an extent that they benefit from being tied. But if that was the case I'd have thought that the wheel would be right on the edge of collapse anyway.

Are these 700c wheels you're talking about? Smaller rim diameter and higher spoke count would make a much bigger difference to stiffness & strength than tying the spokes.